{"id":36011,"date":"2011-03-17T21:37:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T04:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=36011"},"modified":"2023-02-07T07:37:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:37:40","slug":"betting-odds-golden-eagles-vs-musketeers-east-region-bracket-free-pick-17311","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/ncaa-basketball\/betting-odds-golden-eagles-vs-musketeers-east-region-bracket-free-pick-17311\/","title":{"rendered":"Marquette vs. Xavier East Region Tournament Betting Lines | Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

2011 NCAA Basketball Tournament – #11 Marquette Golden Eagles vs. #6 Xavier Musketeers NCAAB Lines<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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NCAA TOURNAMENT BRACKET \u2013 EAST REGION
\nDate\/Time: Friday March 18, 7:27
\nVenue: Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, OH
\nBroadcast: truTV
\nMarquette Golden Eagles vs. Xavier Musketeers Betting Lines from Justbet.com
\nMoney Line: Marquette +120 \/ Xavier -140
\nSpread: Xavier -2.5
\nOver\/Under: 140<\/strong>
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Marquette Golden Eagles vs. Xavier Musketeers Preview <\/strong><\/p>\n

This East Region match up between 11th seed Marquette (20-14) and Xavier (24-7) is one between teams that play a very different style with the Musketeers using an up-tempo style and jacking up the 3\u2019s while the Golden Eagles are a scrappy squad that likes to slow the pace. NCAAB lines have Xavier as 2.5-point favorites in this game with a total of 140.<\/p>\n

In their last games Xavier was upset losing to Dayton 68-67 in their first round game in the Atlantic 10 conference tournament and Marquette getting killed by Louisville 81-56 in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament.<\/p>\n

Marquette was a better wagering team on the season going 16-12 ATS while Xavier was only 14-15-1 ATS. Marquette is 1-4 ATS in their last 5 non-conference games and Xavier is 1-7-1 ATS in their last 9 non-conference games.<\/p>\n

The Musketeers lost their only game against a ranked team this season and while the Golden Eagles were only 3-9 against ranked teams they played in the toughest conference in the nation in the Big East, which has an amazing 11 teams playing in the NCAA Tournament. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Xavier is led by their backcourt guard duo of Tu Holloway (20.2 ppg) and Mark Lyons (13.8 ppg), who are both shooting over 34% from beyond the 3-pt line and Holloway jacked up 160 3\u2019s on the season. The Musketeers are not one dimensional, as they have a good frontcourt with Jamel McLean (10.8 ppg 8.4 rpg) and 7\u2019 C Kenny Freas (11.7 ppg 7.1 rpg).<\/p>\n

G\/F Jimmy Butler (16 ppg 6.1 rpg) and G Darius Johnson-Odom (15.9 ppg) are the leading scorers for Marquette and each is a solid 3-pt shooter. F Jae Crowder (6.8 rpg) is the leading rebounder and he and Butler (6.1 rpg) will be counted on to man the boards. The Golden Eagles will be facing a solid Xavier defense that ranks 70th in the nation in opponents\u2019 points per game and in their last 3 games gave up 7 fewer points than their season average.<\/p>\n

Xavier did not play the schedule that Marquette did, but I think they will bounce back from their last loss and win this game and cover the 2.5-point spread.<\/p>\n

In an interesting little tid-bit Xavier and Michigan State are the only 2 teams that have made the Sweet 16 in the Big Dance in each of the last 3 seasons.<\/p>\n

Betting Trends <\/strong><\/p>\n

Xavier is 4-1 ATS in their last 5 games as a favorite and 5-0 ATS in their last 5 NCAA Tournament games as a favorite and Marquette is 13-5 ATS in their last 18 games as an underdog.<\/p>\n

Pick: Xavier -2.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Its the Marquette Golden Eagles vs. Xavier Musketeers matchup in the 2011 NCAA Tournament East Region. March madness bracket odds currently favor Xavier as a 2.5-point favorite. The total is set at 140. Here then is a preview, free pick plus the college basketball betting angle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":36075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1415],"tags":[28750,46787,164,4633,6426,8609,11740,12060,470,47139,47140,47141,548,10217,47142,47144,47145,47143,10067,11994,6987,1039,11869,46946,1168,1294],"class_list":["post-36011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-28750","tag-2011-ncaa-tournament","tag-betting-lines","tag-college-basketball-picks","tag-college-basketball-spreads","tag-college-hoops-odds","tag-east-bracket","tag-east-region-picks","tag-free-pick","tag-golden-eagles-musketeers-lines","tag-golden-eagles-vs-musketeers","tag-golden-eagles-vs-musketeers-predictions","tag-handicappers-predictions","tag-march-madness-betting","tag-marquette-golden-eagles-vs-xavier-musketeers","tag-marquette-vs-xavier","tag-marquette-vs-xavier-free-pick","tag-marquette-xavier-spread","tag-ncaa-basketball-previews","tag-ncaa-tournament-betting","tag-ncaab-free-picks","tag-previews","tag-round-1-odds","tag-round-1-trends","tag-sportsbook","tag-vegas-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107744,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36011\/revisions\/107744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}